150 Victorian Autors

Over on BookTube, I have a video series introducing you to 150 Victorian authors! A few people were asking for a full list, so here are those 150 authors. I have read 101 out of 150 of these authors and am very keen to read the rest!

These 150 authors are all British/Irish authors (or authors who spent a large part of their life in Britain or Ireland) who were actively writing at some point in the years of Queen Victoria’s Reign (1837–1901), although several of them were also writing before or after the Victorian period.

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926)

Charles Warren Adams AKA Charles Felix (1833–1903)

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882)

Grant Allen AKA Olive Pratt Rayner (1848–1899)

F. Anstey AKA Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1924)

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941)

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

R.M. Ballantyne (1825–1894)

Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

Cuthbert Bede AKA Edward Bradley (1827–1889)

Florence Bell (1851–1930)

R.D. Blackmore (1825–1900)

E.L. Blanchard AKA Francisco Frost (1820–1889)

Dion Boucicault (1820–1890)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915)

Charlotte Brame (1836–1884)

Anne Brontë AKA Acton Bell (1820–1849)

Charlotte Brontë AKA Currer Bell (1816–1855)

Emily Brontë AKA Ellis Bell (1818–1848)

Emma Frances Brooke (1844–1926)

Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920)

Robert Browning (1812–1889)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924)

Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

Mona Caird AKA G. Noel Hatton (1854–1932)

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

Lewis Carroll AKA Charles Dodgson (1832–1898)

Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925)

Lucy Clifford AKA Mrs. W. K. Clifford (1846–1929)

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

Marie Corelli AKA Mary Mackay (1855–1924)

Dinah Mulock Craik (1836–1887)

Victoria Cross AKA Annie Sophie Cory, Vivian Cory, V.C. Griffin. (1868–1952)

Catherine Crowe (1790–1872)

Ella D’Arcy (1857–1937)

Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

Mary De Morgan (1850–1907 )

Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935)

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

Gertrude Dix (1867–1950 )

Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905)

Ella Hepworth Dixon AKA Margaret Wynman (1857–1932)

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

George du Maurier (1834–1896)

Emily Eden (1797–1869)

Amelia B. Edwards (1831–1892)

George Egerton AKA Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (1859–1945)

George Eliot AKA Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880)

Emily Faithfull (1835–1895)

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929)

Michael Field AKA Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913)

Isabella Ford (1855–1924)

Andrew Forrester AKA James Redding Ware (1832–1909)

Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865–1944)

Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885)

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)

William S. Gilbert (1836–1911)

George Gissing (1857–1903)

Katharine Glassier AKA Katharine St John Conway (1867–1950)

Catherine Gore (1798–1861)

Sarah Grand AKA Frances Clarke (1854–1943)

Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909)

George Chetwynd Griffith ((1857–1906))

George Grossmith (1847–1912) and Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919)

H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925)

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

Margaret Harkness AKA John Law (1854–1923)

Thomas Hood (1798–1845)

Anthony Hope (1863–1933)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

E. W. Hornung (1866–1921)

A. E. Housman (1859–1936)

Clemence Housman (1861–1955)

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford AKA The Duchess (1855–1897)

Henry James (1843–1916)

Richard Jefferies (1848–1887)

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

Geraldine Jewsbury (1812–1880)

Edith Johnstone (1866–1902)

Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929)

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

Emily Lawless AKA Edith Lytton (1845–1913)

J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873)

Edward Lear (1812–1888)

Vernon Lee AKA Violet Paget (1856–1935)

Amy Levy (1861–1889)

George Henry Lewes (1817–1878)

Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898)

George MacDonald (1824–1905)

Frederick Marryat (1792–1848)

Florence Marryat (1833–1899)

Richard Marsh AKA Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857–1915)

Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)

Helen Mathers AKA Ellen Buckingham Mathews (1849–1920)

Henry Mayhew (1812–1887)

George Meredith (1828–1909)

John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

George Moore (1852–1933)

William Morris (1834–1896)

Arthur Morrison (1863–1945)

E. Nesbit (1858–1924)

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)

Ouida AKA Maria Louise Ramé (1839–1908)

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896)

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934)

Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864 )

Allen Raine AKA Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe (1836–1908)

George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814–1879)

Charlotte Riddell AKA F. G. Trafford, Mrs J. H. Riddell (1832–1906)

T.W. Robertson (1829–1871)

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

John Ruskin (1819–1900)

James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884)

Mary Seacole (1805–1881)

Anna Sewell (1820–1878)

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1839–1862)

Samuel Smiles (1812–1904)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

Bram Stoker (1847–1912)

Hesba Stretton AKA Sarah Smith (1832–1911)

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)

John Addington Symonds (1840–1893)

Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858)

Tom Taylor (1817–1880)

Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)

Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919)

Brandon Thomas (1848–1914)

Frances Trollope (1779–1863)

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–1892)

Frances Eleanor Trollope (1835–1913)

Mary Augusta Ward AKA Mrs Humphry Ward (1851–1920)

H.G. Wells (1866–1946)

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

Ellen Wood AKA Mrs Henry Wood (1814–1887)

Miss X AKA Ada Goodrich Freer (1857–1931)

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901)

Israel Zangwill (1864–1926)